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How to Improve Cake PHP Development

Sep 17, 2015

There are many programming languages and frameworks to build websites and applications. Cake php is an advanced version and open source framework of PHP used for building robust applications. It uses MVC model approach & is a good tool for website development as it provides robust results.

Features of cake PHP:

Cake PHP has several features which makes it easy to develop applications. Any user having a little knowledge of PHP can develop applications using cake Php using MVC framework.

Quick development: Cake PHP provides user friendly features which allows developers to code quickly as the need of writing long codes is reduced .

Licence: Standard MIT Licence is quite favorable for commercial use.

Security: Sql injection security, form tampering, XSS prevention and many other tools are in built in this platform which makes this platform more secure .Developers don’t need to put extra hours in order to provide security to particular application.

MVC conventions: MVC conventions are added in the framework to guide through the process. This feature is helpful for handling large applications data. Companies providing services for cake Php must have these features and one should be caution while deciding outsourcing work to some organization.

Keep the $validate array on: Updating record files may get you struck in some serious errors while working with cake PHP. In this language developers will go for validations and testing code only after whole code is completed. Now correcting errors one by one is a major issue faced by all programmers , so in order to solve this problem, by keeping $validate array on one can save a lot of time . It helps programmers to spot errors while keeping validation function on.

Managing tables using cake PHP: Designers needs to know the basic information about the tables. There are times when developers finds it hard while working with tables. Just add: pr($this->ModelName->schema()) to your codes, and collect all the needed information about the table. While modifying data in a table developers may face strange issues so either they should start from the scratch or delete cache files from a list by adding app/temp/cache.

Creating pages while not using models: For adding new static pages quickly, a CakePHP developer need not have to set a dedicated controller and define separate action for each page in codes. CakePHP has an option to reduce this tedious action. The developers can simply develop their views inside the pages folder itself and get the action called for all the pages at the runtime.

Rectify errors with save(): While following all guideline to make app with cake php but at the time of saving files you may record some errors. In order to avoid this we can include pr($this->validationErrors) as a command in coding. Using this function you may still get no true values you can add before save() command in your app model. This function will definitely return all errors before saving files.

Finding lost URL while paginating: Irregular pagination may cause the losing of additional URLs. It is usual that a programmer looses the ID (50) in a URL like /products/view/50. It is simple to get the details of lost URLs in PHP. A developer has to add a small line of code in the view, such as: $paginator->options(array('URL' =>$this->passedArgs)) to receive the details of lost URLs having no strains.

Hope above mentioned points will help you in building secure and robust web applications, comment your ideas below to make it more helpful for readers .